An Earth, whose climate is warming, posted its warmest June on record, exceeding the previous mark by 0.13 degrees Celsius (C) with the oceans registering record temperatures for the third consecutive month.
The announcement was made this Thursday by the US Agency for the Atmosphere and Oceans (NOAA).
The world average of 16.55 ºC in June was 1.05 ºC above the 20th century average. This was the first time that a monthly average was more than one degree above normal temperature, according to NOAA.
Other climate monitoring systems, such as NASA, Berkeley Earth and the European Copernicus, had already indicated that last June had been the hottest since records were kept, but NOAA is considered the standard of records, with data dating back to 1850.
The increase from the last month of June is “a considerable jump”, because normally the global monthly records have such a broad base of information collection that they allow to detect variations of hundredths of a degree, and not just tenths, stressed the NNOAA climatologist , Ahira Sanchez-Lugo.
“The recent record temperatures, as well as the extreme fires, pollution and flooding we’re seeing this year are what we would expect to see in a hot climate,” said Cornell University climatologist Natalie Mahowald. “We are only getting a small sample of the type of impacts that are expected with climate change,” she reinforced.
Source: TSF
